Book description
Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III, the hunchback
king, whose remains were recently discovered. The Daughter of Time
investigates his role in the death of his nephews, the princes in
the Tower, and his own death on the battlefield.
Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was
villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in
the Tower. Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time is an
investigation into the real facts behind the last Plantagenet king's
reign, and an attempt to right what many believe to be the terrible
injustice done to him by the Tudor dynasty.
Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken
leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III
that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a
sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most
heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his
brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have
been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors?
Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the
British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III
really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime
writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication
of her first novel,
The Man in the Queue
(1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she
returned to crime writing with
A Shilling for Candles
, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of
her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her
entire estate to the National Trust.
